Version 0.9.10.3 is here

We are happy to announce full support for the Sony PS3 firmware 1.8 and the Xbox 360 spring update.

As you probably know, shortly after we made our previous major release, both Microsoft and Sony issued major updates for their game consoles, making them an even better multimedia gateways. In order to best serve our users, we issued patches overnight that supported the new functionality of those firmware updates, however these patches were only partial solutions. This release brings full support for the new functionality of the PS3 and the 360 and the ability to properly serve them both at the same time (the two patches were conflicting in certain aspects, these conflicts haven been removed).

The main benefits of this release are:

• Internet radio now works on the PS3. First playback attempt is likely to fail with an "Access to the media server has been denied" message (or "unsupported data" message), this is because the PS3 does not wait long enough for the data to be fetched over the Internet. After this failure, wait a few seconds and try playing this same station again. Assuming a connection to that station was possible, there won't be an error message, however the actual playback may take up to two minutes and more to start since the PS3 requires about 1 MB of data before it initiates playback.


• Internet video and transcoded content starts playing faster on the PS3 than it used to (saving about 5 seconds).


• Library refresh is now reflected on the PS3 and on any other device that checks the media server for updates (leaving a folder that has updates and then going back to it is required in order to see the changes).


• Issues with green bars or distorted colors when playing via PS3 were resolved.


• TVersity can now produce for the 360, WMV7 or WMV8 or WMV9 or MSMPEG4V3 once can switch between them by seting the wmProfile variable in config.xml to one of wmv7, wmv8, wmv9, mp43.


• TVersity can now encode to WMV in two methods, the first is via directshow (which always existed and still is the default) and the second is via ffmpeg. While for now only wmv8 can be produced via ffmpeg, it is slightly faster than directshow and hence it may prove beneficial in certain cases.


• Fix image browsing for the DirectTV HR20.


• Do not block every URL with two consecutive dot characters, but rather check if the canonical path is shared or not and based on this determine if to allow ot deny access to it. This solves some playlist related playback issues.


• The TVersity service is now starting more reliably during a reboot, waiting, if necessary, for the networking to finish initializing, instead of quitting if it is not already initialized when Tversity is started.

Full release note are available here.

Download the latest release here.

Update
We just updated this release with a fix to the pause after ~30 seconds of playback problem. The version for this quick fix release is 0.9.10.3a. It is recommended that all users upgrade.

A Patch for firmware 1.8 of the Sony PS3 is now available

As you may know Sony has released yesterday a new firmware update for the Playstation 3 which added support for UPnP AV / DLNA.

We are glad to announce that we already have a patch that takes advantage of this new functionality allowing playback of almost any audio and video files on the PS3, including Divx/Xvid and many other audio and video formats.

This patch also allows playback of some Internet radio/TV channels, albeit it is still somewhat limited in this area. A revised patch that can play all the channels TVersity can typically handle with other devices is coming soon.

You can download the patch at:
http://download.tversity.com/SonyPS3-180PatchV2.zip

To apply it please follow the steps below:

• Make sure you have TVersity version 0.9.10.2 installed, otherwise install it. Please note that this patch cannot be applied on top of older versions and is designed for 0.9.10.2 ONLY.
• Stop media sharing in TVersity (via the advanced menu or the tray icon)
• Unzip the patch file and copy its content over to the TVersity installation folder (by default it is \Program Files\TVersity\Media Server)
• Start sharing and try accessing your audio, video and photos from the PS3

As always, feel free to share with us your feedback at our support forums.

Edit
A revised version of the patch has been released due to issues with the original one.

Second Edit
Yet another version of the patch has been released fixing the green bars and distorted colors appearing with some transcoded videos.

Third Edit
Release 0.9.10.3 is now available with additional improvements and fixes for the PS3.

A Patch for the Xbox360 spring update is now available

As you may know Microsoft has released today a new firmware update for the Xbox 360 and this broke compatibility with TVersity (only with videos, audio and images work as before).

We are glad to announce that we already have a patch that fixes this problem and also takes advantage of the new functionality of this spring update, letting you browse your video in a folder hierarchy instead of just a long flat list.

You can download the patch at:
http://download.tversity.com/Xbox360Spring2007Patch.zip

To apply it please follow the steps below:

• Make sure you have version 0.9.10.2 installed, otherwise install it. Please note that this patch cannot be applied on top of older versions and is designed for 0.9.10.2 ONLY.
• Stop media sharing (via the advanced menu or the tray icon)
• Unzip the patch file and copy its content over to the TVersity installation folder (by default it is \Program Files\TVersity\Media Server)
• Sart sharing and try accessing video from the 360

Thank you everyone for helping us test this. It will be great if people with a 360 from different regions in the world will test it since in the past we had cases where European boxes behaved different than American ones.

As always, feel free to share with us your feedback at our support forums.

Update:
A revised patch that also fixes some audio related issues introduced in the Spring update is now available at:
http://download.tversity.com/Xbox360Spring2007PatchV2.zip

Update:
Yet another revised patch that fixes the image viewing issues introduced in the previous patch is now available at:
http://download.tversity.com/Xbox360Spring2007PatchV3.zip

(Note: There is no need to apply all the patch, applying the latest one is enough)

TVersity offers better Nintendo Wii and DirectTV HR20 support

We are happy to announce the availability of TVersity 0.9.10.2 featuring better support for the Nintendo Wii and the DirectTV HR20.

The Adobe Flash interface for the Wii and PS3 is now fully operational via cursor motion/clicks and it no longer requires the use of arrow keys. This change was made to better support the Nintendo Wii:

• There is a new “up one level” button that is always visible and is more accessible than the one in the toolbar.
• The scroll bars are larger and allow page scrolling in addition to single item scrolling.
• Playback controls are displayed once the cursor is moved to the bottom of the screen.

For the DirectTV HR20, images at resolution higher than 1920×1080 are now downsampled since this device cannot handle very high resolutions.

You can download this new release at:
http://download.tversity.com/Setup_0_9_10_2.exe